Journal nizo's Journal: Ahhhhh the snow is disrupting my art!!! 5

Ok so we get a boatload of snow on our flat roof, which of course causes a leak right near my precious computer a few days ago. I hastily move said item as far away as I possibly can, and cry that my computer ended up in a pile in a room that has no internet access :-(

Fast forward to tonight, where I finally get motivated to work on things. I now have my new nifty PC setup, with raid(!) and a few old trays (for backing up to a couple of removeable drives) finally installed. The raid card and trays have been sitting in a box for ages; it is nice to have them finally in use. Wow, I will actually be able to make backups and save my data in the event of a minor disaster! Part of my motivation to fix all this was certainly caused by a vision of losing everything on my PC because of a water drip (art, pictures, writing). That would suck so very bad. The problem is it is hard to work on this crap all day, and then come home and deal with it. I just wanna draw, not putz with hardware.

I still have to figure out how to deal with network access, but on the upside I also got the wireless working on my crappy old Linux laptop (which amusingly enough I was able to use as a router to allow my computer to connect to the internet). I do have a wireless dongle coming for the new 'puter, so I think for now I will mostly abandon the scary leaky room (even though I believe I have fixed the leak). Hopefully I can start working on the art again a bit before school cranks up next week. Or maybe I will install a wiki and start organizing all this computer stuff I have been accumulating for the past ten years.....